Prandelli's choices are annoying. Not Lippi level, but still very annoying.
for example. While I like Ogbonna, he had a solid year but still, he is 24 and hasnt played many Serie A games. Bocchetti can also play CB and LB, has played over 60 Serie A games before he was sold for 15 mil to a Russia team, has played in the UCL and Europa league, was a member of the Italian U-21 Euro team, the 2010 WC team, and the 2008 Olympics. only a year older, I think it is very annoying that Prandelli has been ignoring him while he has been in charge.
Astori also had an excellent year in Serie A, is also 25, and has over 100 Serie A games under his belt. He had a better year than Bonucci did, and yet even Rannochia (who was dogshit all year) made it further in the squad cuts than Astori.
Just keeping Astori and Bocchetti makes the defense more experienced and quite honestly, better. Even if he wanted to go past experience and focus on form, he should have called Acerbi to the 32 man initial squad over Rannochia.
At GK, while Buffon and Sirigu make perfect sense, De Sanctis is ok but not great, and is not noticably better, if even better at all than some other options including Abbiati (although he has said in the past he wouldnt take a backup role for Italy) Viviano (big time future, should have probably been kept) Consigli (excellent season, lots of bigger teams are looking at him) or Marchetti (good year for Lazio) all would have been better choices, and 3 of them are young enough to have the potential to be around after Buffon is done.
while I'm not a big fan of Pepe, if Prandelli wanted a hard working player to add a wing option Pepe had a very good season and wasnt considered.
pretty much all of Italy's problems could have been addressed with the proper player call ups.